the two great bodies of land at Bering Strait. At that point it is less than forty miles wide, a distance so short that it is said on clear days one might sit in his reindeer sledge in Alaska and see the cold hills of Siberian Russia. The wedge widens rapidly as we go to the south, and if we attempted to cross it along the line of the Equator, starting
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"The ship itself is a wonder."
in South America, we should travel ten thousand miles before we came to the Moluccas, the group of islands where Magellan's ships landed on the other side of the Pacific.
If we sailed from Lower California along the Tropic of Cancer, we should have eighty-five hundred miles to go before we reached the Empire of China; and from San Francisco to Yokohama, Japan, a little farther north, the distance is about forty-five hundred miles, This last route is along one of the great highroads of the Pacific, but a still shorter way can be found by going to Vancouver or
